| Message ID | 20180619152737.7BBCA3A4F09@snark.thyrsus.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Accepted |
| Delegated to: | Herbert Xu |
| Headers | show |
On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 11:27:37AM -0400, esr@thyrsus.com wrote: > This is automatically generated email about markup problems in a man > page for which you appear to be responsible. If you are not the right > person or list, please tell me so I can correct my database. > > See http://catb.org/~esr/doclifter/bugs.html for details on how and > why these patches were generated. Feel free to email me with any > questions. Note: These patches do not change the modification date of > any manual page. You may wish to do that by hand. > > I apologize if this message seems spammy or impersonal. The volume of > markup bugs I am tracking is over five hundred - there is no real > alternative to generating bugmail from a database and template. > --- > Eric S. Raymond > Problems with dash.1: > > (Identical patches should apply to: sh.1 sh.distrib.1) > > Ambiguous or invalid backslash. This doesn't cause groff a problem. > but it confuses doclifter and may confuse older troff implementations. > > --- dash.1-unpatched 2018-05-16 16:52:28.478288208 -0400 > +++ dash.1 2018-05-16 16:52:28.182290220 -0400 > @@ -1825,7 +1825,7 @@ > .Ic shift > will issue an error message, and exit with return status 2. > .It test Ar expression > -.It \&[ Ar expression Cm ] > +.It \&[ Ar expression Cm \&] Patch applied but as you can see above I've restored the Cm which was deleted by your original patch. Thanks,
--- dash.1-unpatched 2018-05-16 16:52:28.478288208 -0400 +++ dash.1 2018-05-16 16:52:28.182290220 -0400 @@ -1825,7 +1825,7 @@ .Ic shift will issue an error message, and exit with return status 2. .It test Ar expression -.It \&[ Ar expression Cm ] +.It \&[ Ar expression \&] The .Ic test utility evaluates the expression and, if it evaluates
This is automatically generated email about markup problems in a man page for which you appear to be responsible. If you are not the right person or list, please tell me so I can correct my database. See http://catb.org/~esr/doclifter/bugs.html for details on how and why these patches were generated. Feel free to email me with any questions. Note: These patches do not change the modification date of any manual page. You may wish to do that by hand. I apologize if this message seems spammy or impersonal. The volume of markup bugs I am tracking is over five hundred - there is no real alternative to generating bugmail from a database and template. -- Eric S. Raymond Problems with dash.1: (Identical patches should apply to: sh.1 sh.distrib.1) Ambiguous or invalid backslash. This doesn't cause groff a problem. but it confuses doclifter and may confuse older troff implementations.